The Top 10 Gadget Gifts for 2009

It’s that time of year again. Despite continual advertising since mid-June, most of us leave our frantic gift buying until December 24.

If you’re still wondering what to buy the gadget-obsessed geek in your life, Amazon has published a useful top 10 of electronic gifts from the US, UK, Germany and France. These lists have been compiled from shoppers using Amazon’s wishlist system (although they’ve removed their Kindle ebook reader from the results so the lists are unbiased).

US Amazon.com

The US wishlist is dominated by high-end Canon cameras and accessories. It looks like an expensive season for US buyers…

Craig is a freelance UK web consultant who built his first page for IE2.0 in 1995. Since that time he's been advocating standards, accessibility, and best-practice HTML5 techniques. He's written more than 1,000 articles for SitePoint and you can find him @craigbuckler

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Gargamel

this would be far better if pictures were in the article!

http://www.mean-machine.co.uk dmj1973

Is this a post filler ? As opposed to a stocking filler. Doesn’t really have anything worth reading !

http://htmlblox.com samanime

I actually thought this was kind of interesting to see a list of gifts vary from country to country. Not every article has to be some life-changing read. =p

http://www.SitePoint.com Matt Mickiewicz

I agree, pictures would have really jazzed up this post.

NetNerd85

How much did you get from Amazon?

http://www.optimalworks.net/ Craig Buckler

How much did you get from Amazon?

I should have mentioned that … Amazon didn’t pay for this article or approach SitePoint about publishing it.

As samanime mentioned, I considered it to be interesting — especially the differences between the countries. Why is Canon dominating in the US? Why are netbooks more popular in France and Germany than the UK?

I found this interesting that they had different country stuff BUT in the US’s economic decline a $1600 camera? Why do no lists ever have real life budget things that are actually reasonably priced instead of just wishlists of things I wish I could afford or is everyone actually just that rich???

Galen

I actually thought this was kind of interesting to see a list of gifts vary from country to country. Not every article has to be some life-changing read. =p